Interview with Barnier on TF1 and France 2: more than 10 million viewers watched the Prime Minister

There were many French people in front of their televisions. More than 10.3 million viewers followed the interview with Prime Minister Michel Barnier on TF1 and France 2 on Tuesday evening, on the eve of the vote on censure in the Assembly. Which represents an audience share of 48.3%, according to Médiamétrie data revealed this Wednesday.

TF1 had more than 5.7 million viewers at the time of Michel Barnier's intervention, compared to around 4.5 million on France 2. This interview was also broadcast live on the news channels franceinfo and LCI (whose audiences will be available later).

In a letter sent Tuesday to Arcom (the audiovisual regulator), the BFMTV news channel was outraged at not having had authorization from the TF1 and France Télévisions groups to be able to broadcast it, considering that it was an “attack on information pluralism”.

This Wednesday, the leader of the deputies of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen, will in turn be on the set of the 20 Hours news on TF1, then it will be the turn of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France insoumise , THURSDAY.

For comparison, some 15.3 million people watched Emmanuel Macron's television speech on June 9, in which he announced his decision to dissolve the National Assembly, broadcast by TF1, France 2 and the French channels Continuous information (BFMTV, CNews, LCI and Franceinfo).